shellfish
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- noun
- /ˈʃɛlˌfɪʃ/
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marisco
- Tourism, recreation, and the harvest of shellfish and fish are billion-dollar industries.
- shellfish harvest
- shellfish products
- raw shellfish
Shells abandoned by pioneering shellfish move into a physics of metaphor.
- Shells abandoned by pioneering shellfish move into a physics of metaphor.
- And the part of them's clam, like as in shellfish, like what the fuck?
Examples
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Researchers found heavily contaminated shellfish at Willapa Bay, Washington, and at Tillamook Bay, Oregon.
Academic text (1990) -
For your information... a scallop is a shellfish.
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Uh, excuse me, does this have shellfish in it?
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I'm allergic to, uh, shellfish.
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The surveys evaluate all factors affecting the quality of shellfish growing areas.
Academic text (1996) -
When outside traders visited the island to buy fish and shellfish, the indigenous traders outbid them.
Academic text (1996) -
She's allergic to shellfish.
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- Yeah, he's got a shellfish allergy and there were shrimp appetizers on a white tray.
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And she'd come back each day with her hands full of shellfish and seaweed... she'd simmer over a driftwood fire in a manner all her own.
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Many people enjoy eating shellfish, such as shrimp and crab, for their delicious taste.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Shellfish is simply shell + fish, a name for water animals that have a hard outer 'shell' and a soft body, like oysters and crabs. That's why shellfish means these shelled sea creatures.